Show WATER I lS POLLUTED IS D DI 1 I Case of QI Typhoid Fever in Par Parleys Parleys Parleys leys Canyon C nyon 1 RIGHTON RIGHT ON BRINK STREAM oF I ILD BE z JI ro J I j i i 4 11 w Typhoid Cam c i ViI Virgie t West Wt t North f le Mr X Master Worth North 4 Mata Main tre t Mrs Mn p J 1 is Wait South Couth street treet streetA Mt et A cause that is s aid to be beto sufficient to explain a lars large part perl of the typhoid bold In ft the tbt th city ety liaR has been discovered dl vered in Part Pan Parties PanIe ies Ie i canyon according to the report of Land and Water Commissioner oner Mc McKnight Knight ight He Re that within the thelast thelast last 1 t few weeks weeD we there has baa been a case of or typhoid t d at Itt halfway house houe hou in the canyon nyon This case e being outside tile the th etty city limit was wa not reported ported to the hoard d of health and no mesa meas measures ures could be taken by that board to nt contamination of the water from that source In tact fact f t nothing was known of or the thecae cae alie by th the authorities it ft is Ia said eaM until th thc fact of ot its Ita previous existence tence exl was by the water commissioner who wa was w in the making an in JA investigation tion of ot the condition of ot the reek creek k It Is J believed by the health heth au authorities authorities that refuse refu e found its U way y into the water of the 7 creek and theo then was wae carried Into Irto the city from th this source Brought Into City Cit It Tt U Ic t by physicians that enough nough germs could easily have been carried into the water and distributed over the city in this thia manner to have caused every very case of or typhoid in the city and thousands more mOno yet the presence of the g germs not be detected by hem chem bal Iral analyst of the water That germs have hav been carried down from that ease of or lid and that this thi to Is the ex explanation of the severity and mI extent of or orthe the present peasant pre epidemic mie is III firmly believed by members oC ol the health department It Is a well welt known knon fact suM said a health officer that one ease case of typhoid which the germs are a allowed allow to get into the water waier source of a city tt will r aus thousands oT of cases yet repeated U chemical anti and an bacteriological ital tests teats of or orthe the water will wUI tail fall to show bow contamina contamination tion finn This case CH of at the disease dl eue in Par ear Parleys leys lere canyon is 8 no doubt responsible te for the present epidemic The case is I well ell now and ed the 4 damage t is I done and the only fo foi the public now IK Ig to boil kU ll every evelT drop of water thep thop t use There T re is no question but that Parleys Parley 1 water ter in Is I contaminated and ad is a great at I source of 0 danger ce c Was Not Reported rit Mh its Physician did not DOt know sf Sr the tile caa ce c of typhoid hi m th tM the canyon nor did any of oC the e t otter health authorities ties tise It Tt was not DOt reported It Is to said cald d ar and t the health authorities are ar of the opinion ion that whoever is responsible re for the failure fall to report rep re th the case e is amenable to t Besides the presence prence of this typhoid rase aie fOa Mr Je reports that ut Par Parley Parleys ley 11 leys s creek c k is filled with debris t Ing of f rotting sags hags brush ru and aad other othery vegetable y matter that pollutes water He has ha had a force of or nn n working W In hi Inthe hithe the some seine days cleaning out oat this thill rubbish but there is Ie still a large quantity that has hAA not been touched and there are no funds to pay for the tM remainder of the work He states that the thO condition of t i Mountain Dell canyon Is unusually toad d and that it needs at attention attention atI I Mr estimates that it will cost coet 1 to completely COI clear cIc out tb tile the s they T should be sad aad adhe he is Ie anxious to have h some action taken to tit that end At Work in Otty Creek k kA A force of ot men has hu also o been at work ork orkIn tn In City Otty creek looking over moer the tion of the bed of or the creek The re ye report report port is that is not nearly so 80 much debris de there Ulel had and that the water at tet r is in much better shape The city ordinances give tv the city the pow power r to protect the for tor or a die dis distance tance of 1 ten mIM inUI bove above the point of intake of or the tile system Mr McKnight stats states that he bt bottoms the ity should have b this authority for a distance e of or at least leut fifteen miles mites above the intake He believes It absolutely necessary that the banks bana be b k pt per perfectly y free lre from rein contaminating material for this distance In Parleys Parley s canyon the halfway house ha hais stood within lS feet of ot the Ute Uter creek r k for years and nd a barn has baa stood 1 4 en on the hanks banks of the creek creak Time and again In Proprietor Roach has baA baAn been n arrested for lor befooling l the water but although the city baa has the right to toA tofa A fa 4 so 50 his has never nev r been n con coo condemned and cleared away from the refill creek The health authorities say y until this thIa is ia one done me disease dt front from that source may be he expected |